Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
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- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
Era
Story of Robin Hood
1889
Tales from the Arabian nights' entertainments
1891
The Arabian nights entertainments
1870
The Gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history
1761
The History of Cinderella
1860
The History of Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
1840
The King of the swans and other tales
1856
The Old, old fairy tales and stories; or, The popular chap literature for children of the last century
1800
The Story of Robin Hood
1897
The Three little kittens
1895
The Wig and shoulder of mutton
1816
The book of nursery tales
1845
The famous and renowned history of Valentine and Orson
1719
The famous history of Whittington & his cat
1802
The famous history of Whittington and his cat
1790
The history of Valentine and Orson ...
1810
The story of Little Red Riding Hood
1859
The story of the three apples
1810
Tom Thumb
1848
Tom Thumb
1888
Valentine and Orson
1895
Warne's national nursery library
1870
Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle
Date unknown
Götterlehre für junge Leute in deutsch-lateinisch-italienisch- und franzoisischer Sprache
1809German